The Girls On Fire Model:

Our five-year, holistic leadership program works with early-adolescent girls to teach the skills needed so they can be in charge of their own futures. We support our partner communities to define and fulfill their own vision for wellbeing, allowing them to create positive and lasting social transformation.

Our approach is:

HUMAN RIGHTS + EDUCATION: 

Knowledge of human rights and education forms the foundation for healing and embodied leadership.

SAFE + INCLUSIVE: 

We foster safe relationships for girls in schools, families, communities and work in a non-judgmental and participatory way.

HOLISTIC & SUSTAINABLE:

Programs address barriers to a girl’s education, with sustainability at its core.


Since 2014, we have partnered with communities to support girls having every chance to move through adolescence safely, educated and empowered to make critical decisions in her life. We find a girl teaches this to 10 other girls in 1 year.

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OUTCOMES

1) Built agency and self-mastery through:

  • Indicators such as confidence, resiliency, decision making and leadership roles have been significantly improved

  • More skills to own her own health, education, life and family choices.

2) Higher performance in school and community service

  • Improved grades overall

  • Active leaders at school and participatory peer-mentors

  • Advance skillset for community organizing from idea to implementation.

 

3) Unlock global opportunities

  • Keynote speakers at United Nations in Kenya 

  • Ambassadors & speakers for major HIV/AIDS Health Conference

  • Guests of honor at The Obama Foundation fellowship awards

  • Summer camps in United States

  • Six girls are attending high school in the U.S.

4) Girls On Fire Leaders graduates will:

  • Actively contribute to local female leadership through community teaching, mentoring and organizing

  • Be talent pipelines for global corporations

  • Drive social change locally and/or globally levels

  • Finish higher education to become a positive participant in global society.    

  • Be job creators for youth and vulnerable populations.

  • Increase diversity and inclusion throughout different sectors. 

 

YOUNG LEADERS IN ACTION

Not only have we helped girls build strength, stability and self-reliance, the Girls On Fire Leaders have worked with a network of girls to build sustainable futures by learning leadership through development.

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Evidence proves that the best investment is education of girls.

Educating a girl in urban slums means she will earn more and invest 90% of earnings in her family, becoming 3x less likely to contract HIV, and have fewer, healthier children who are more likely to reach adulthood (Erulkar, A., & Matheka, J. K. (2007), Adolescence in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Population Council - The World Bank).